Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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you're separating away from something, whichever
way you ' re going, if you point at the thing and
if you t hrust in that direction you are to take
out your relative velocity in all planes .
So , it
looked like the thing was off to the left or to the
south of our orbital track by a couple hundred
feet and it was going down rapidly.
Losing
altitude. After I thrusted this second time, I
knew I had more than enough velocity, much more
than I needed to kill off the
5 feet/second
we'd added .
I watched it and it looked like it
wasn ' t going away from us anymore. It looked like
our relative velocities had stopped.
I wanted to ··
get the platform alined somewhat in case we did
have---to come down in the 2~1.
We really hadn't
had much chance to check over the spacecraft yet.
So I quickly went to as close to zero-zero- zero
as I could get .
I used the zero yaw and the zero
roll off the ball and I went to a pitch att i tude
that looked like it was about zero and tried to
get the ball to aline to zero-zero- zero.
At that
time the booster was mostly behind us--mostly
back toward the Cape from us--back behind us with
respect to our velocity back there. It iwas in the